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Officials in the Southern Alleghenies created a nonprofit to avoid a state law that makes it hard for local governments to build their own broadband networks. Now it faces an existential test.
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Federal officials want the money to benefit publicly-owned networks, but Pa. law gives phone companies a “virtual veto.”
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